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The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything by Adrian Bejan
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Adrian Bejan [Bejan, Adrian]

7 Growth In 1961 the Bic pen invaded the world. It was a very good thing, yet the idea that one could not keep it forever was cruel in the ...
( Category: Environmental Science March 27,2019 )
The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority by Robert P. Crease
epub |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Robert P. Crease

The more complicated and specialized modern culture becomes, the more its external supporting apparatus demands the personally detached and strictly “objective” expert, in lieu of the lord of older social ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 26,2019 )
An Elegant Defense by Matt Richtel
epub |eng | 2019-01-20 | Author:Matt Richtel

31 Merredith Merredith, born just two years after Linda and nine hundred miles away in Denver, woke up one morning in 1977 with a low-grade fever. Her joints hurt. It ...
( Category: Immune Systems March 25,2019 )
Shocked by David Casarett
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:David Casarett [Casarett, David]

There’s another reason to be excited that the search for the secret of hibernation is shifting to metabolism. If we’re looking for something that alters metabolism specifically, it may be ...
( Category: Biology March 25,2019 )
The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-09-14 | Author:Nicholas Carr [Carr, Nicholas]

THE NEW ECONOMICS of doing business online are a boon to consumers. What used to be expensive—everything from international phone calls to classified ads to video transmissions—can now be had ...
( Category: Information Theory March 23,2019 )
New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything by Graham Lawton & New Scientist
epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Graham Lawton & New Scientist [Lawton, Graham & Scientist, New]

WHAT WAS THE FIRST COOKED MEAL? BREAKFAST: FIBROUS AND BITTER LEAVES; FRUIT. Lunch: bark; fruit; raw monkey meat and brains. Dinner: grubs; leaves; fruit. No, not the latest food fad ...
( Category: Natural History March 17,2019 )
The heavens and the earth : a political history of the space age by McDougall Walter A. 1946-
epub |eng | 1985-03-15 | Author:McDougall, Walter A., 1946-

Space Age Communism: The Khrushchevian Synthesis 293 "glorious" of all Soviet space feats, the three-man flight of Voskhod I, was brought back to earth mysteriously, after a single day in ...
( Category: History & Theory March 15,2019 )
The Problem of War by Michael Ruse
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Michael Ruse

Fundamentalism Expectedly, not all interwar pacifists thought alike. Fosdick was a liberal thinker, who was comfortable with science; and in particular was an enthusiast for evolution, although it seems clear ...
( Category: Social Philosophy March 14,2019 )
Elegant Defense : The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: a Tale in Four Lives (9780062698506) by Richtel Matt
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-01-20 | Author:Richtel, Matt

31 Merredith Merredith, born just two years after Linda and nine hundred miles away in Denver, woke up one morning in 1977 with a low-grade fever. Her joints hurt. It ...
( Category: Immune Systems March 12,2019 )
How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic by Reisch George A
azw3 |eng | 2005-03-20 | Author:Reisch, George A. [Reisch, George A.]

It is impressive to listen to plain people here, how they avoid boasting and overstatements in daily matters. I collect "expressions," e.g. fire guard leaders explaining how people should get ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 12,2019 )
Can Science Make Sense of Life? by Sheila Jasanoff
epub |eng | 2019-01-23 | Author:Sheila Jasanoff

There is here a sense of confident empiricism, backed at the same time by tolerance toward religious belief, a presumption that if people would only “think,” they would come together ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 11,2019 )
Parallax by Alan W. Hirshfeld
epub |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:Alan W. Hirshfeld

The three princes of Serendip, from the ancient Persian fairy tale, “were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.” So wrote ...
( Category: Astronomy March 11,2019 )
Ten Drugs by Thomas Hager
epub |eng | 2019-03-07 | Author:Thomas Hager

In the ten years after it first reached the market, CPZ was taken by fifty million patients. But today it’s hardly used at all. It’s been superseded by new formulations ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 8,2019 )
Mike Brown by How I Killed Pluto & Why It Had It Coming
epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:How I Killed Pluto & Why It Had It Coming [Pluto, How I Killed & Coming, Why It Had It]

It was raining so hard that I was in danger of drowning. We named this new object, found two days after Easter, Easterbunny. Easterbunny was so bright that it was ...
( Category: Astronomy March 7,2019 )
Inside Science by Robert E. Kohler
epub |eng | | Author:Robert E. Kohler

FOREST WALKING AND WATCHING What Goodall saw upon arriving at Gombe was not what Leakey had led her to expect (he never did see the place firsthand). Leakey conjured up ...
( Category: Biology March 5,2019 )

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